There was a Mute Swan family at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.
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| Mute Swans |
And at Riis Park beach and Fort Tilden, Oystercatchers and Piping Plovers sheltered their babies on stretches of cordoned off sand monitored by volunteers for the Plover Project, plus cameras set up by the NYC Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon).
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| Oystercatchers |
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| Piping Plovers |
On a Governors Island walk with Loyan Beausoleil, sponsored by NYC Bird Alliance, we spotted Killdeers raising chicks among the trees.
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| Killdeers |
While Common Terns were nesting far out on the empty pier towards Brooklyn.
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| Common Terns |
The recently fledged Red-tailed Hawk was practicing flying.
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| Red-tailed Hawk
And a baby Herring Gull on a rooftop cried for food as the parent calmly preened. |
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| Herring Gulls |
On an evening cruise up the East River sponsored by NYC Bird Alliance, we saw Double-crested Cormorants nesting on U Thant Island across from the United Nations headquarters.
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| Double-crested Cormorants |
And an Osprey nested high up on a deteriorating metal structure along the waterfront.
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| Osprey on nest |
Closer to home, on a walk with Marieke Bender sponsored by Battery Park City, we saw a young starling beginning to hunt for its own food instead of begging the parents.
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| Young European Starling |
And on the way home I saw that the Mallard ducklings in the little pond in Battery Park City are getting pretty big too.
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| Mallard ducklings |
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